Irwin L. Morris is the Kretzer Distinguished Professor of Humanities and the Executive Director of the School for Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University. His most recent book is Reactionary Republicans: How the Tea Party in the House Paved the Way for Trump's Victory (co-authored with Bryan Gervais).

Winner of the Best Book in Southern Politics (VO Key Award) from the Southern Political Science Association

"Recommended" -- C.S. Bullock III, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8

"Recent elections have shown parts of the South beginning to realign back to the Democratic Party. The realignment of parts of the South has significant implications for national politics. Morris is one of the first scholars to explore this incipient change in partisan loyalties. Using counties as his unit of analysis, this careful study makes a valuable contribution that charts how voters moving to urban areas differ from those who stay in rural communities. As Morris documents, these choices are transforming the region's politics." -- Charles S. Bullock, III, Professor of Political Science, University of Georgia

"Morris offers the broadest argument yet for how relocation patterns are changing the balance of party politics in the American South. Regardless of where they come from, people who choose to move to places in the South are more likely to affiliate with the Democratic Party than their counterparts who stay behind. This work tells us that the extant Republican domination of southern electoral politics is on borrowed time." -- Seth C. McKee, Professor of Political Science, Oklahoma State University